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As for my own goals, I have a few:

I plan to complete my mystery calender so that I have logged at least one mystery cache on each date (I currently have 14 dates to go). [2016-05-30: Done]

I'm going to complete a challenge that requires me to log at least 50 caches per calendar month for two years. I have now completed 12 months, so I need to keep it up during all of 2016. [2016-12-05: Done]

I'm planning to bring my geocaching streak up to at least a year long. I tried this last year, but broke the streak at 266 days. Ideally I'd like to have my longest streak exceed my longest slump, but that's going to be tricky when my longest slump was close to four years.

I will be passing 1000 finds this year (currently at 930), I'll see if I can manage it this month.

I've set myself a personal challenge of at least 3 types per day for 33 days. If challenge caches get reinstated I may make a challenge cache for it (although I'll probably loosen the challenge to not require the 33 days to be in a single streak).

I finished an alphabet streak that I started in December. I failed the last attempt I made at that challenge when I hit X.

I'd like to finish my D/T matrix this year. Definitely should be able to fill in my hidden dates and found dates calendars.

Well, that's my concern as well. That's why I have just put WA on the forthcoming GIGA in Germany. This way I hope I can fulfill it. And moreover I can add another one "to do" to my above mentioned list. :-)

I am about to move to an other city this year, and start a new job there, so geocaching is not on the top of my list for this year. Nevertheless i want to try to reach some points:

I'd like to reach 3000 finds ( currently at 2648)

I would like to fill some holes in the hidden month stats. (one missing in 2004, 3 in 2003, and 7 in 2002; 2000 and 2001 are completely empty, not sure to ever find one of those.) Let's see which gaps will be filled in 2016

and the hidden date stats, too, currently i miss 6 dates..

place some caches in the new area

That will hopefullly fill the gap (6th Feb.) in my Placed caches by found date stats. I had them all, but when i transferred one cache with app. 930 logs to an other user, that day was gone with the logs, too. So i have to hide a new cache, because i archived the old ones due to the move

With the exception of the APE and Lost&Found (plus the unsupported types), to get at least the bronze of every badge going in Badgegen. At present this means I need to find 18 multi-caches, 14 mysteries, 1 mega, 1 webcam, 2 regulars, 6 FTFs and host 1 event (which is already published) - Achieved all badges 28 August.

I've set myself another target for this year as well: to get at least one cache in Wales each month. So far I've got Aberystwyth in January, Ebbw Vale in February and a series across Mid-Wales in March.

Having only started in mid August 2015 it's difficult to know which targets to focus on as there is still so much possibles to achieve. As a minimum I want to be able to clear out my local city area, and achieve 1500 caches (possibly 2000). I'd like to add a couple of extra countries and complete my D/T matrix barring T4, 4.5 and 5 which I'm finding physically impossible given a bad hip.

I'd like to do more road trips with fellow local Cachers and attempt a genuine 100 caches in a day, made up of normally placed caches rather than bucket power trails.

Not sure that would be possible without a power trail. 24 hours in a day x 60 minutes per hour is 1440 minutes per day. That leaves you just 14.4 minutes per cache in order to find 100 in a day.

Without a power trail, it seems like it would be difficult to even find 100 caches that you could even travel to within that time period. Plus you have to factor in the time it takes to actually find the cache and sign the log (or not find it - a DNF - and then have to go elsewhere!). And taking time to eat and get gas will cut into your time even further. Seems like it would be difficult!

I wish I could realistically add 10 webcams. Today there are only 7 of them active in all of Sweden (4 of which I have logged already). (There have only ever been 21 of them published in all of Sweden, and the rest of them are archived.)

Planned some personal challenges with the badges in the statistics. Reaching the next level in all of the cache catregories (esp. multi and unknown), all German regions (three more to go) and a 360° challenge (42 missing) - the last one will be the toughest, though. Maybe at the end of the year there will be 6,000 founds, too, but that is not a main goal.